Four B-1B Lancer bombers arrived in Norway. They have already made the first flights from the Norwegian air base Orland with F-35 fighters of the Royal Air Force in the Norwegian Sea area.
According to the publication The National Interest, about two hundred personnel also arrived in Norway. All of them serve at Dice Air Force Base in Texas. The main task of the US military is to support its NATO allies. As noted in the article, for the first time, strategic bombers of the US Air Force were deployed in Norway for flights in the Arctic. The Americans hope to gain the necessary experience here when interacting with pilots from Norway.
As for the B-1B Lancer bombers themselves, The National Interest writes that the United States is already working on replacing these aircraft with the B-21 Raider. Over the past two decades of intensive operation, the B-1s have been severely worn out, bringing them into normal combat condition will be too expensive. Therefore, the United States has already announced that 17 B-1B aircraft out of 62 will be written off.
Svetlana Tsygankova
